Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha *breaks down sobbing* Can you believe someone thought of him before I did?
I'm so sorry it took so long to update, but I got my internet taken away. I won't say any names as to whose fault it is though. *cough coughmothercough cough* But the good news is I've got a lot of episodes done so I can post a whole bunch at once now. Here's the story.
Episode two:
Seekers of the Sacred Jewel
Last time I was pulled into a hidden well on my family's shrine. I'm just a girl in middle school ok? Nothing that weird has ever happened to me. There was a boy, Inuyasha, pinned to a tree when I came out. The spell should have held forever, but, somehow I broke it. Now monsters are after the sacred Jewel of Four Souls and here I am stuck in the feudal age of Japan.
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Kagome and Kaede stood there staring at Inuyasha. Inuyasha smirked and flexed his claws. Men gathered behind him with weapons and he smirked at them.
"Pay no heed to Inuyasha child," Kaede said signaling Kagome to stay away from him. The Sacred Jewel makes monsters more powerful Kagome thought as she looked at the shining jewel Is it cursed?
"I hate having to wait. And I hate the smell of you!" Inuyasha said to Kagome as he ran to attack her. Kagome gasped and started running away from him. She tripped over one of Mistress Centipede's bones and fell. Inuyasha took a swipe at her with his claws and barely missed her.
Inuyasha landed on the ground "Want me to scratch your back?" He said as he cracked his knuckles.
"You really tried to hit me just now didn't you?" Kagome said angrily.
"Shoot him! Shoot him!" The village men yelled as they started shooting their arrows. Inuyasha turned around quickly to face them and broke the arrows in half as they sped towards him. Inuyasha ran to the village men and swiped at two trees above them. The trees fell down narrowly missing the men. Inuyasha jumped on one of the stumps.
"Who do you people think I am?" He said angrily "Do you think you can hurt me like I did that centipede?"
"Lady Kaede." One of the village men said "Me thinks perhaps we might have better luck with the centipede."
"Somehow I knew it would eventually come to this." Kaede said as she reached into her shirt and pulled out a purple beaded rosary with fangs on it.
"Prepare yourself!" Inuyasha shouted to Kagome while chasing after her.
"Prepare, for what?" Kagome said back while running away from him. All of a sudden she was thrown to the ground as Inuyasha took another swipe at her. She turned around and gasped at VERY LARGE slashes in the ground from Inuyasha.
"Hah! Now it's mine!" He said as he jumped to the ground for the jewel. The rosary Kaede had started glowing and floated in the air. Then each bead flew off to Inuyasha and they collected themselves around his neck.
"Huh?" He said when he reached the ground "What the heck are these?"
"Quickly child, the word of subjugation!" Kaede shouted at Kagome.
"Huh? What word?"
"It matters not. Your word has power to hold his spirit!"
"Ahhh!" Kagome screamed as she came to a small cliff and a chunk of it fell while she was on it. As she hit the ground and the jewel bounced onto a bridge while Kagome grabbed for it.
"Hah!" Inuyasha says as he flew from the forest onto the bridge. "How can you overpower me when you can't sit up?"
"A word to hold his spirit?" Kagome said to herself. "But how will I know which one?" Inuyasha jumped onto the bridge and almost got the jewel when Kagome looked at his twitching dog ears.
"Sit boy!" She said quickly. The rosary around Inuyasha's neck glowed.
He groaned, surprised, when all of a sudden he slammed onto the bridge head first. Sit boy! Uh! Sit boy! Uh! Sit boy! Uh! The echo was heard throughout the canyon the bridge was hanging over.
"What do ya know? It worked!" Kagome said. Inuyasha got up looking pretty mad.
"What the heck is this thing?!?" He shouted as he tried to take it off.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha, but even you lack the power to remove it" Kaede called down to him.
"We'll see about that!" He shouted back up to her "I'd come up there and finish you off if you didn't look half dead already!"
"The word please." Kaede said.
"Sit boy." The rosary glowed and Inuyasha slammed into the bridge again this time going through it.
"Ahhh!" He yelled as he fell into the river below.
"Well then, shall we head home?" Kaede said happily. Kagome walked out to the bridge looking down at the river. "That was easy," She said "Wish I'd said it earlier."
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"How's that?" Kaede said while putting a bandage on Kagome.
"I noticed you rebuilding the houses wrecked by Mistress Centipede" She said to Kaede. "What a pain!"
"Pain? Yes, and just beginning. Now that the sacred Shikkon no Tama is back among us far worse than Mistress Centipede will come to claim it."
"Worse than yesterday?" Kagome asked.
"Not just demons, There are humans whose hearts are evil still and only the jewel has the power to fulfill their petty, grasping ambitions."
"Oh… speaking of petty, what are you still doin here?" Kagome said as she looked over to Inuyasha who was lying on the floor on his side.
"I'm waiting for the jewel." He responded glaring at Kagome.
"With the beads around his neck his threat is diminished." Kaede said "It is perhaps the only way we can allow him so close to the jewel."
"Why would you want the jewel anyway? It seems to me you're strong enough as it is." Kagome said to Inuyasha. "What power can the jewel give you that you don't already have?"
"Ah. But he is only half demon" Kaede responded.
"Uh!" Inuyasha grunted as he punched hole in the floor and turned around glaring at Kaede. "Ya know what? I'm sick of hearin' some dried up witch I JUST MET talk like she KNOWS me!"
"So ye don't remember? I thought as much." Kaede said calmly ignoring the hole in the floor. "I'm younger sister to Kikyo, she who bound ye to the tree. Kaede."
"You're Kaede?" Inuyasha said surprised. "So you the brat huh?"
"Fifty years have passed and I have grown old." Kaede said while putting logs in her fire.
Inuyasha scratched his head "If you're this old… Kikyo must be pushin' a hundred" He sat down. "Sure glad I don't gotta worry 'bout being old, at least no for a while."
"Kikyo didn't worry either." Kaede said as she puts more logs in. "Kikyo died." Inuyasha's ears twitch and he looks sorry for a brief moment.
"It was on the same day she shot ye with the arrow."
"Gee, sorry to hear it." Inuyasha said smirking, not seeming sorry at all. "Not that I really care or nothin'. It's one last thing for me to worry about."
"I wouldn't let my guard down just yet Inuyasha" Kaede replied. "I now know that Kagome is the reincarnation of my sister."
"Huh?" Kagome said confused.
"And it isn't just because ye resemble her. The jewel of four souls was in your body. That alone is proof enough. It's up to ye now child to take over its protection."
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Me? Protecting this?
Kagome thought as she looked at the jewel.
"Who am I kidding?" She said to herself.
"She's the reincarnation of who?" and old man said to another villager.
"You gotta admit there's something other worldly about her" another villager replied.
"They're sayin' that girl there is really Kikyo."
"That's Lady Kikyo for those who respect her!"
"Me? I knew it was Lady Kikyo all along"
"Lady Kikyo's come back just as she left!"
Kagome turns around only to find the villagers bowing there heads to her.
"I gotta get outa here!" She said nervously.
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Inuyasha sat in a tree "butterfly style" with his hands in his kimono looking off into the distance.
"She died, and I never knew." He said sadly. All of a sudden an object flew at him from behind. He caught it without even looking behind. "Hmm?" he said only to find it's a piece of fruit.
"Hey? Don't you wanna eat?" Kagome called up to him.
"Where'd ya get all that stuff from?" Inuyasha said, noticing she's carrying lots of food.
"The villagers gave it to me. Why not come down from there and help me eat it?"
Kagome crunched away at her food happily while Inuyasha glared at her.
"Whatever you're up to I ain't buyin' it" He said suspiciously.
"Buying what?" Kagome said still crunching away "Listen, it's fair to say you don't like me right?"
"WAYYYY beyond fair!" Inuyasha said, showing how much he really hated Kagome.
"Whatever!" Kagome sighed, annoyed. "It's not even me you dislike, it's this Kikyo person." Inuyasha looked down at his food then leapt into the tree above him.
"I'm not Kikyo, okay? I'm Kagome! Can't we just call a truce?" Kagome said, looking up at him.
"Hah! I knew it!" Inuyasha said as he jumped up, "What you don't get is that I'm just after the jewel! You're just trying to lure me into a false sense of security!" he pointed at Kagome accusingly.
"Oh really?" Kagome said as she looked down at her food, "Considering all I have to do to make you obey is say the word sit."
"UH!" Inuyasha grunted as he slammed into the ground, head-first. Kagome looked over at him, surprised.
"Whoops! Sorry about that!" She said as the dust from the ground cleared. Inuyasha lifted his head out of the ground.
"Oh MAN." He groaned angrily.
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Kagome was lying under a blanket on the floor of Kaede's hut with the fire next to her.
"It's to days now that I've been over here." She said sadly, "Grandpa, Sota, Mom. They must be so worried. I gotta get back, one way or the other." Kagome snuggled under the blanket and fell asleep.
Crows perched on a tree outside of Kaede's hut stared at the building. Among them was a crow with three red eyes and black slit-like pupils, a long tail, and a blue aura. It stared at the jewel around Kagome's neck as it looked through the hut and blanket. The jewel started to glow. All of a sudden Inuyasha leaped up from a tree and slashed at the crows. They flew away leaving feathers in the air.
"Hmph. They've all come just 'cause they smell the jewel." Inuyasha said as he stood on a branch, watching the crows fly away. "Stinkin' vultures."
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Daylight came and Kagome was walking next to a forest. Inuyasha's Forest, The Dry Well. She thought as she looked away from the forest. It's how I came here after all. There's gotta be some kinda hint how to get home. Kagome walked into the forest.
"Kagome! Kagome!" Kaede called out. A group of village men ran up to Kaede.
"We looked everywhere but she's not here." They said.
"Could it be she's gone off on her own? We spoke of those who seek the sacred jewel but we spoke not nearly enough." Inuyasha was perched on top of the roof of a building next to the group as he listened.
Kagome walked through the forest. She didn't notice men following her. There! That's that well I came out of! Kagome thought as she walked to the well.
"Yahh!" The men following her jumped out of the trees and grabbed Kagome.
"Hahaha." A man laughed evilly as he slammed Kagome onto the floor of a hut.
"Ow!"
"Hey boss! We caught the girl just like you said we should." The man said.
"Hahaha! Her kimono's shorter than mine." Another man laughed as he pulled on Kagome's skirt. "You're gonna catch cold if ya go around half dressed." Kagome gasped as she jumped up.
"Don't do that it will rip!" She said, blushing.
"What's the matter princess?" Another man said. "Our hands to dirty for ya?"
"Marry me and I'll buy ya a new one." A man next to him said. The three men approached her as they laughed evilly.
"Stop laughing!" Kagome said as she back away, holding down her skirt.
"Hand over the jewel. Right now." Said a large man, whom was sitting on the floor, and leaning against the wall. Kagome gasped as he got up and chuckled and walked towards her. He drew his sword.
"Hey!" Kagome yelled when two men took her by her arms.
"Hey boss! Try taking it off in one swing!" said the man holding Kagome's right arm. "Like a dandelion." He pushed Kagome closer as the boss raised his sword.
"Let go!" Kagome said.
"Stop squirmin'" The man holding her arm replied.
The boss brought his sword down and stabbed the man with it.
"What'd ya do that for?" The man said as he fell to the floor. The rest of the men in the group and Kagome backed away from the boss fearfully. The boss swung his sword at them and missed. He swung again, this time hitting the floor. He swung a third time and the group ducked as the sword missed their heads by inches. A statue next to them was sliced in half. Two men grabbed Kagome by her hands and shoulders and held he in front of the boss.
"Boss! Boss!" One of the men cried out. "Where ya aimin'? She's who you want!"
"Wait! Wait!" Kagome yelled as they pushed her towards the boss. She turned around and smacked their hands away. "Can't you tell there's something wrong with you boss?" She glared at them angrily. "Now get your buts in gear or next it will be you to! Do I have to tell you EVERYTHING?"
"Ah!" The men yelled as they and Kagome ducked just in time as the sword went above their heads.
Here I am, in Feudal Japan, playing duck-duck-goose, with an eight foot troll! Kagome thought as she ran away from the boss.
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Inuyasha leaped over a river as he ran through the forest. He jumped into a tree and sniffed the air. "Stupid girl. I don't care where she goes but she took the jewel with her." He leaped into the air.
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The boss was out of control. He swung his sword everywhere destroying everything in his path. He slashed a column and part of the building collapsed. The debris landed on the man, who earlier had pulled Kagome's skirt.
"Are you okay?" Kagome said as she ran over to help the man.
"We gotta go around!The exit's blocked!" A man said to Kagome.
"Can you stand?" Kagome said, still helping the injured man.
"Thank you for saving me. Thank you." The injured man said gratefully as Kagome placed his arm around her shoulders so he could stand.
"I want the jewel! Give it to me!" The boss said.
He's after the jewel! I wish I didn't have it! Kagome thought as she looked at the glowing jewel around her neck.
*Flashback*
"And not jut demons." Kaede said "There are humans who seek it to make real their petty, grasping ambitions."
*End Flashback*
"Maybe I should have listened." Kagome said to herself. "But I'll worry about that later." The men and Kagome walked slowly past the boss. Kagome still helped carry the injured man as she kept walking. The other men noticed they were being left behind and ran to Kagome and hid behind her.
"Thanks for nothin'." She said when she noticed. The men laughed nervously.
"Ahhhh!" The boss yelled as he swung his sword and missed. He tumbled into the wall.
"That's right." Kagome said. She picked up the jewel and looked at it. "Take him." She said as she handed the wounded man to another. She looked at the jewel and then threw it. It bounced through a window and landed on the ground outside the hut.
"The jewel. Give it to me!" The boss said.
"The wall! Push it out all at once!" Kagome said to the men as she gestured to the wall.
"Got it!" The men responded. "UH!" They grunted as the y hit the wall together. A few tiny fragment of the wall fell. "Sorry boss. No good." The men called to Kagome.
"What did you just- I'm not your boss." Kagome said as the other boss behind her went unnoticed. She turned around just as he sung his sword down. Kagome gasped and put her head down with her hands folded and eyes closed, awaiting the impact of the sword.
"AH!" Inuyasha grunted as he burst through the wall and slashed the sword in half with his claws. Kagome looked up and opened her eyes. Inuyasha she thought, smiling.
Inuyasha punched the boss with his right fist, then his left, and then Inuyasha kicked the boss in the face. The large man fell to the floor and Inuyasha landed next to him.
"Ahhh!" The other men yelled as they ran out of the building. "We're outta here boss!" A man said to Kagome.
"Thanks again." The injured man said.
"I can't believe you actually came!" Kagome said happily.
"Is it safe? Where's the jewel?" Inuyasha replied
"Jewel?"
"Oh no! Tell me you did not just say that!"
"Ehhehehe." Kagome laughed nervously.
The boss started getting back up and Inuyasha and Kagome backed away.
"Ugh! What is that smell?" Inuyasha said as he covered his nose with his sleeve. "It's like rotting meat or…"
The boss got up. A scratching sound seemed to come from him. The boss's chest armor fell off. A three eyed crow screeched as it stuck its head out of the hole in the boss's chest.
"Uh…what's that?" Kagome said to Inuyasha.
"How much you wanna bet that bird ripped his living heart and made itself a bloody nest?" Inuyasha replied.
"I knew there was something wrong. The bird made him a puppet."
"Karrien crows don't fight on their own when there's dead bodies handy. They ain't so tough." Inuyasha positioned himself, ready to attack. "But they're hella NASTY!" He leaped at the man and rammed his hand into the hole in the boss's chest. The crow shot out of the man, screeching. Inuyasha landed on the floor crouched over like a cat ready to pounce. The boss dissolved into bones and landed next to him.
"It's getting away!" Kagome cried out as the crow flew out the window, "aren't you going after it?!"
"Maybe you haven't noticed, but the world is full of monsters." Inuyasha said as he rotated and massaged his arm. "You want I should go after them all?"
"But-"
"No but. You wanna start doin' the fightin'? Be my guest." The crow flew down and picked the jewel up in it's beak. "In the meantime where's the jew- Aw!" Inuyasha groaned when he saw the crow. "That stupid crow is making off with the jewel!" The crow flew away holding the jewel. "What's wrong with you?!" He yelled at Kagome.
"What do you mean what's wrong with me? Go after it!" Kagome yelled back.
"Come on!" Inuyasha said as he smashed through the building pulling Kagome behind him.
"Hey!" Kagome said when she ran into Inuyasha. He stopped… he was looking at a bow and some arrows on a horse.
Inuyasha jumped into the air with Kagome on his back. She was holding the bow and arrows Inuyasha saw.
Inuyasha leaped from tree to tree, carrying Kagome "piggyback" style.
"What're you waiting for? Hurry up and shoot it!" Inuyasha called back to Kagome as he sailed through the air.
"Shoot? You're kidding, right? I've never used a bow in my life!"
"The crow lives by eating human flesh." Inuyasha said as he landed and ran after the crow. "If you think that's bad, let it swallow the jewel." The crow swallowed the jewel.
"Ah! It swallowed it!" Kagome cried out. "Fine, I'll try."
"Thank you." Then after she takes out the crow, it's her turn. Inuyasha thought to himself. "Kikyo was a master archer. Take it in one shot!"
"I told you! My name's Kagome!" Kagome yelled as Inuyasha leapt into the air. Still, Kikyou, give me your strength. Kagome and Inuyasha sailed through the air. Kagome was posed and ready to shoot. "Here goes…" She released the arrow and it sped towards the crow only to miss. Inuyasha crashed back onto the ground with Kagome on his back. "What the… I thought you said that she was a master archer!" Kagome said as she angrily looked at Inuyasha. Inuyasha lifted his head out of the ground.
"She was! It's you that's the klutz!"
The crow screeched and got larger. "See how big it is?" Inuyasha said. He got back up and with Kagome still on his back, ran after the crow. "Do it!" He cued Kagome as she aimed at the crow. She released her arrow again and missed. Inuyasha stopped and dropped Kagome on the ground and groaned in frustration.
"Ow!" Kagome said when she hit the ground.
"I don't care what the old lady says! You! Are not! Kikyou! Ya got that? I am so out of here!" Inuyasha ran away.
"Inuyasha wait!" Kagome yelled and got up.
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The crow screeched as it swept down and snatched a boy off a bridge, carrying him over a river.
"Somebody help!" A woman called out.
"Lookin' for your next meal already huh?" Inuyasha said to himself and the crow as he ran across the tree tops. "You forget. You first gotta get through me."
"Inuyasha no! You'll hurt the boy!" Kagome yelled at Inuyasha as she ran to the edge of the bridge.
"Back off! Iron reaver soul stealer!" Inuyasha leapt off of the trees and slashed the crow to bits.
"Ah!" The boy cried as he fell into the river. "Ah! Help! Help me!"
"Where is it? Where's the jewel?" Inuyasha said as he landed on a rock, looking around.
"Help!" The little boy was swept down the river and the villagers followed, running on the bank. Kagome quickly took off her socks and shoes and threw them aside. She ran on top of a rock and dived into the river. "I'm so glad I took lessons." She said as she swam over to the boy.
"How can she do that?" A villager said in awe.
"She's fast!"
"She's an imp I tell ya! A water imp!" another yelled, "She's not human at all!"
"Hang on!" Kagome said the boy as she put her arm around him. "I've got you." She swam towards the river bank on her back using her free arm.
"It's on its back now! I don't believe it!" the villager cried out again "What a day what a girl what an imp!"
"They say teenage girls get excited…" Kagome said to herself, swimming to the bank.
"Save the jewel stupid! The jewel!" Inuyasha yelled across the river to Kagome. Kagome put the boy down and he ran to his mother.
"Oh mom! I was so scared!" He cried. Kagome turned around and glared at Inuyasha. "Hmph" she turned away from him.
"Ah wha-" Inuyasha stuttered as he looked at Kagome in shock.
"Thanks for savin' me" The little boy said to Kagome.
"Thank you. Thank you." The mother said gratefully, bowing to Kagome.
"s'okay"
Under the water the crow's body came back together and it burst throught the top of the water, screeching.
"I knew it." Inuyasha turned to Kagome and yelled across the river "Hey! It's getting away!"
"It what?" Kagome looked in the crow's direction "Well, I guess you're off the hook for now pal." All of a sudden the little boy started to move up and down grunting fearfully.
The crow's foot was still on him and was trying to pull him up.
"I know…" Kagome said and she looked around. She walked up to a man and held out her hand. "Hey! Could I borrow your bow?"
"Uh, sure." The man said as he handed Kagome the bow. "It's so far!"
"My butt she's gonna hit it." Inuyasha said to himself as he looked at the crow.
I can do this… I know it! Kagome thought as she took aim with the crow's foot tied to the arrow. She fired.
"I get it! She's shootin' the foot!" Inuyasha said.
The foot can't help but be drawn by the jewel, which almost guarantees it will hit! Kagome thought.
The arrow sped towards the crow. It hit, piercing through the crow's body, and hitting the jewel. A pink light exploded out of the crows body and the crow was torn to pieces. Cracks went through the jewel as it broke and then it exploded, the pink light shining even brighter.
"Yeah!" Kagome said when it exploded.
"She hit it!" Inuyasha said, surprised. He squinted and shielded his eyes from the light.
"That light… where's it coming from?" Kagome said. All of a sudden hundreds of smaller lights shot out of the explosion into many different directions.
"Lady Kaede! Those lights!" A villager yelled fearfully to Kaede, pointing at the lights.
"Oh aye, and I like not the looks of it." Kaede said as she looked up and watched the lights speeding by.
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"Are you sure it fell around here?" Inuyasha said while he and Kagome looked around a clearing in the forest.
"W-well yeah… I mean kinda" Kagome said nervously. "Though I'm still kinda worried about that light…" Kagome gasped as the crows head flew towards her.
Inuyasha ran in between Kagome and the crow.
"I don't think so!" Inuyasha said as he slashed through the crows head. A small object fell to the ground.
"I hope that's not what I think it-" Kagome said.
"What do you think it is?" Inuyasha said. Kagome walked over to it and kneeled down. She picked it up.
"I think it's a shard from the jewel." She said, looking at it.
"Wha- What did you SAY?!?" Inuyasha yelled.
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Well I finally got the second episode up. Next episode: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again.